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Aslak Hellesøy

Aslak Hellesøy is the creator of Cucumber and co-founder of Cucumber Limited. He is a co-author of The Cucumber Book and an early adopter of XP and BDD.
Aslak works as a programmer, software architect, business owner and trainer in a variety of industries, including finance, telecom and retail.

Talks I've Given

When developers can get feedback on a change within a second, productivity goes through the roof. Many developers know how to write fast unit tests, but what about full-stack acceptance tests exercising a GUI, server side domain logic and persistence?

How long do your acceptance tests take to run? 10 minutes? An hour? A day? Do your acceptance tests sometimes pass, sometimes fail depending on the phase of the moon? Whenever an acceptance test fails, do you sometimes spend hours or days to diagnose the cause of failure because the test touches...

BDD is heavily inspired from DDD and TDD. Following a conversation over a drink with Eric Evans at last year's event, Aslak has agreed to share his experiences with the New York DDD community. Aslak will cover the basics about how these powerful techniques can be used together to create...

The number of teams adopting Cucumber around the world is steadily increasing. This has created a lot more work for the team behind Cucumber. The keynote will explain what the Cucumber core team is doing to make sure the Cucumber ecosystem will stay healthy for years to come.

Cucumber just turned 5 years old, and the project has never been more active. In this session Cucumber creator Aslak Hellesøy will cover the most recent developments as wells as giving expert insight into where he thinks Cucumber is headed.

At last year's CukeUp, Aslak announced that work had started on Cucumber-JVM - a pure Java implementation of Cucumber that runs on half a dozen JVM languages. A year later, Cucumber-JVM 1.0.0 is released and ready to take the JVM by storm. This presentation shows you how to install...

In only 2 years, Cucumber has grown to become one of the world's most popular open source tools for BDD, and executable documentation. It has over 300.000 downloads and contributions from over 250 people around the world. What is it that makes this tool so popular? Could you benefit from it...